| Ask HN: What's a starting point for learning how to write programming languages? | ||
| 33 points by da_murvel2 hours ago | hide | past | web | favorite | 26 comments | ||
| I've been thinking about writing my own programming language for some time. This to gain a deeper understanding of how programming languages, and by extent, computers work. I've bought the Flex and Bison book by John Levine to have a resource on parsing and lexing. I have come to realize however, that writing a complete language like Java, Python, Ruby, from bottom to the top, is of course not a small task. So therefore I started to think of writing maybe a compiler for another language, writing a "simple" language like SQL, Markdown etc. to begin with. What are your experiences when writing a new programming language, where and how did you start? | ||
